Monthly Archives: August 2015

Today, we dropped my mother-in-law off at the airport after she stayed with us for a few months. Most people would think: oh no, mother-in-law for a few months! Ack!

Fortunately, she is nothing like a stereotypical mother-in-law. She is kind, sweet, thoughtful and loving. She really takes care of us even though we are the ones who should really be taking care of her.

The Holocaust itself was an extremely tragic and horrific event. There were video interviews of some survivors that live in Central Florida and it was very sad to hear the conditions that they had to endure.

It is incredible to think that human beings were capable of committing such atrocities.

That is why it is all the more heartening to see some of the survivors share their stories. From one perspective, the Holocaust can be seen as the most extreme form of bullying. While we cannot change the past, we do have the opportunity to mold the future.

As one of the logos (pictured below) from the museum’s website suggests, we should learn from the past to protect the future.

I believe something that we can do specifically that learning about the Holocaust teaches us is to:

Speak Up!

I wonder how far Hitler may have gotten if someone would have called him out before he got into power.

Like this:

I love when strangers come together to build something for an unprivileged family.

Today, we volunteered at Habitat for Humanity for the first time. It was an awesome experience to see mostly complete strangers coming together to work on the yard of this house destined for a single mom with two kids.

We cleared the lawn of debris and lay new sod. It was our first time doing it and we did a pretty good job.

We will definitely go out to help Habitat again in the near future!

I love when strangers come together to build something for an unprivileged family!

Like this:

I love to walk in the rain and I love my daughters. So why not walk in the rain with my daughters!

I was planning to walk our dog, Kronos, as it started raining, but he wasn’t interested. So two of my daughters and I went out.

It was a nice, cool, heavy rain. There was a little wind so at first it was slightly chilly since the raindrops were also cool.

We started walking on the sidewalk (barefoot, of course) and saw cars passing by. It was to think what they might be thinking. They probably thought we were crazy, but were then overtaken by a little rain envy. 🙂

My daughters acted silly as usual and we were splashing in puddles and kicking water at each other. It was so refreshing.